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2005-12-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Rafael 2005-12-16 11:06|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry, this should be on pg.3.

Posted by Rafael 2005-12-16 11:12|| 2005-12-16 11:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The plant has four units and the smelter affected was in the second one.

Is it just me or does the presence of a smelter in the midst of nuclear power generating equipment stand out like a whore in church?

Metallurigical refining in and of itself is a fairly accident prone process involving elevated temperatures, high power consumption and (ipso facto) molten metal. None of these are particularly good things to have mucking about while you're trying to moderate neutrons.

I'm confident that, with their usual hyper-pragmatic Soviet mentality, they decided to place a smelter right where electrical power would be most available, i.e., cheek by jowl with a nuclear reactor. Sheesh. Even if the smelter is for deprocessing of fuel rods or whatever, it would make a lot more sense to isolate these two hazardous functions by a kilometer or so.

Posted by Zenster 2005-12-16 11:51|| 2005-12-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

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